New hospitalizations for COVID in Thailand rocketed upward last week to 3,256 new cases, hitting a new weekly high for all of 2023 and 2024. The Ministry of Public Health on Monday also reported 16 new COVID deaths for the past week, tying the weekly high thus far for this year.

 

Thailand's new weekly COVID hospitalizations now are more than six times the weekly total of 501 from when the current spring COVID surge began in mid-March. Now averaging 465 per day, Thailand's new weekly COVID hospitalizations have risen for 14 of the past 16 weeks.

 

The latest weekly COVID hospitalizations tally for June 23-29 marked a week-over-week increase of almost 79% from the prior week's total of 1,823. The weekly gain of 1,433 new COVID hospitalizations is by far Thailand's largest week-over-week increase of the year.

 

Thailand's prior high of new weekly COVID hospitalizations for the years 2024 and 2023 was 3,085 cases from early June in 2023. Monday's latest tally of 3,256 is now Thailand's highest since a week in mid-December 2022 when 3,419 new COVID hospitalizations were reported.

 

The latest tally of 16 weekly COVID deaths ties the weekly high for Thailand for 2024, equaling the same weekly total for the week ending May 18. Among the new deaths, the MoPH said 7 were male and 9 female. By age, 10 were ages 70 and above, and 2 each were in the age ranges 60-69, 50-59, and 20-49.

 

By comparison, Thailand's key weekly COVID indicators to start 2024 were 664 new COVID hospitalizations and 4 COVID deaths for the first week of the year.

 

With the latest MoPH update, cumulative figures since the start of this year are 31,205 COVID hospitalizations and 172 COVID deaths.

 

In other updates, the latest weekly tallies of 709 current serious condition COVID hospitalized patients and 336 currently hospitalized patients requiring ventilation to breathe both declined slightly in the latest week, but remained just below the more than year-high peaks set two weeks ago.

 

The weekly new COVID hospitalization totals since this year's spring surge began in mid-March have been:

 

March 16 -- 501

March 23 -- 630

March 30 -- 728

April 6 -- 774

April 13 -- 849

April 20 -- 1,004

April 27 -- 1,672

May 4 -- 1,792

May 11 -- 1,880

May 18 - 1,882

May 25 -- 1,801

June 1 -- 1,863

June 8 -- 2,762

June 15 -- 2,881

June 22 -- 1,823

June 29 -- 3,256

 

The MoPH's weekly COVID reports for Thailand are available at the following MoPH website:

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=main

 

They also have been posted each week in the following AseanNow forum thread:

https://aseannow.com/topic/1311049-weekly-thai-ministry-of-public-health-covid-reports/

 

Edited July 1, 20242 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK

How do they know that any hospitalisations were due to covid?

 

Seems to me that anything that can't be easily explained gets put on the 'covid' chart.

Many In Thailand Oblivious That KP.3 And LB.1 Variants Are Wreaking Havoc. 3,256 New COVID-19 Hospitalizations, 16 Deaths Last Week!

July 1, 2024

 

Thailand Medical: Health authorities from the Department of Disease Control of Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health ‘silently’ issued an update that there were 3,256 new COVID-19 hospitalizations for the week 23rd to 29th of June 2024.

 

This roughly works out to about 465 hospitalizations per day.

 

Many private hospitals are reporting that there are already beginning to feel the stress as ICU wards and COVID-19 beds are filling up fast and to add to the worrisome issues, many hospitalized for COVID-19 are taking a longer time to recover this time round, hence there are fewer beds being freed for others.

 

(more)

 

Thailand Medical News

https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/many-in-thailand-oblivious-that-kp-3-and-lb-1-variants-are-wreaking-havoc-3,256-new-covid-19-hospitalizations-16-deaths-last-week

 

 

The Bangkok Post today finally decided to dawdle along with their own mixed-message report on the latest MoPH weekly COVID update from last Monday.  Their version -- official COVID deaths are down vs. past years, but new COVID hospitalizations in Thailand are at year-highs.

 

Covid-19 mainly affecting at-risk groups

...

"He said the Covid-19 case rate was again increasing and currently at its highest this year. The death rate from Covid-19 in Thailand was currently 0.04%, much lower than during the spread of the Delta variant of the virus when it averaged 2.16%.

 

The in-hospital fatality rate was 0.7%, one-third of that during 2023. This reflected the improved overall coronavirus situation in Thailand, Dr Apichart said."

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2822416/covid-19-mainly-affecting-at-risk-groups

 

Of course, the reported rate of new COVID hospitalizations in Thailand right now isn't just at its highest level of this year, but instead, is at its highest level since December 2022 -- which kind of raises doubts about credulity of the general claim of "the improved overall coronavirus situation in Thailand."

 

As shown in the MoPH graphics below, current new weekly COVID hospitalizations in Thailand are at their highest number since December 2022, and almost five times their number compared to the start of 2024.

 

Currently hospitalized COVID patients listed in serious condition (the dark purple sections in the MoPH graphics below) also are almost five times higher now than at the start of 2024, are still higher than December 2022, and remain just below the peaks last reached in the past month and before that in fall 2022.

 

Yes, it's good that reported COVID deaths in Thailand right now are down compared to prior years, though still four times higher than the weekly COVID deaths count at the start of 2024. But that's only telling one part of the broader COVID story that's going on here.

 

Weekly new COVID hospitalizations in red.

Weekly COVID deaths in gray.

COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition in darker purple.

 

Thru June 29, 2024

 

Thru Jan. 6, 2024

 

Thru December 17,  2022

 

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=main

 

 

Edited July 3, 20242 yr by TallGuyJohninBKK